Improvement in wacjon-racks



J. MGGALLUM. Wagon-Rack.

No. 222,415. Patented Dec. 9, 41819.

material. `about seven inches in length, the whole length of which is inserted in the sooketipieceor' IMPROVEMENT IN' WAGY'VoNj-RACKS.

i Specification forming part of Iletters Patent Nof222-l5, dated `December 9, 1879; application-filedl. February 4, 1,879. i i

To all whom zfmay concer/a:` i

Be it known that I, JAMEs MGCALLUM, of the city of Chicago, county ofCook, andState of Illinois, -have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon-Racks, of which the following is a specieation.

The invention relates to arms, brackets, and

sockets to beapplied in the construction of wagon-racks, in manner hereinafter described.

Heretofore such racks have been made separate from the wagon-box, and when required for use the box had to be removed, requiring extra help, taking up room for storage when fnot. inV use, and the rack, being open at the bottom, allowed grain that shelled out inA hand-- ling to fall through to the gronndland become wasted, all of which is saved by my improvement.

Other devices have been made to be attached i to the box of the wagon ;Y but the short brackfets split the box, and the arms, having to `be spliced with Wood, were unwieldy, weak, and

expensive. l

The object of my invention is to provide a system or combination of arms, brackets, and

sockets so constructed that the `arms can be shifted into different positions, and thereby of themselves afford the different kinds of racks and top boxes, that would otherwise have to be made separately and at considerable .ex-

pense, and when so made are not as strong and cheap as mine.

The socket piece or ,bracket B 'in Figure 2 extends the whole depth of the box, and, pass' ing through the cross-piece at the bottom, is firmly bolted, and forms a strong support to the box itself. y y i `The arm A, as shown in Fig. 1, is composed vofmalleable iron or other suitable material, is .about -two feet long, is punctured with holes for bolting thereon strips of Aboard or other The base or foot t of the arm `is bracket B, as shown in Fig. 1.l The part j of.

this arm A is also fitted onits upper side to `ened by a web, m.

In the accompanying drawings, `in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts,

i NITED- STATES. PATENT OF'Fl-"CE--i` JAMEsJMoc'A'LLUM, or"y oHIoAGo, ILLINOIS.

vadapted for dovetailing with the correspond- Y, Y

foval or square or angular openl sockets, as

brackets. `my header-box, as constructed for the States is fastened` to the end of the arm A. I use Fig.\l is a perspective of the arm A, withits" base v1 fitted into socket c of the bracket B so" l as to produce the foundation fora hay, straw, y f or similar rack, requiring a broad surface to loadt'upon. The arm is so constructedv that when so inserted it gives the proper incline -f for a broad rack. A rack composed of ten of these arms, four on each side and two on the rear end of the box, will sustain a weight of fourthousand pounds. l

The socket may be square, as at c, Figs. 1, 2, 3; or rounded or oval, as at d; or. acute-V angled at its corners f f ,-1 and in either case ing part '1I orj of arm Y Fig. 2 is a view of the arm Ainserted in the socket G or D of the bracket in an uprightpof. sition, the top of the flanges of baseiof'theAv arm A being cut away, as shown at l,to permit the flangesKto fit inthe socket after thev manner shown in Fig. l; but for the purpose of producing an upright hog or corn raekl or top box the forming of this arm A so that it can be shifted into either .of the above-de Y i scribedpositions without removing the boards` or strips that are bolted thereon,togetherwithh the construction of a bracket,B, provided with shown in Figs. 3 and 4, embodies the essential feature of my invention. Fig. 3 shows a top view of bracket B, with the square socket. Fig. 4 shows a top view of bracket B, with the oval socket, and both or either of these may be used by me in construction of the arms and Fig. 5 gives a perspective view of and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains, where it is customary to harvest the heads of grain only.l I make this box by closing ,the i surface E, of the hay rack, and by passing around the outer edge an upright board, F, of sufficient height, which is fastened in place byv means of bolts witha clip on the bottom, which standard G, Fig. 6, for light top boxe s,`tl1e M base of the standard being formed to fit the i sockets, which may be used, as before stated," when a lightandnarrow top box is desired.,`

It will now be seen that the following are some of the advantages due to my improve and at its side, whereby it may be inserted in the same bracket either in an upright or in a. horizontal, or nearly horizontal, position, for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the arms A,construct ed for use in the two positions, as shown and described, with the dovetaliled socketed brackets B, as set forth.

JAMES MCOALLUM.

In presence of- GEORGE F. NEWHALL, W. F. WALLACE. 

